DeSantis Battles $149M Cannabis Legalization Push In Florida’s Fiercest Amendment Fight Yet
As the Nov. 5 elections loom, the struggle between Floridians who want legal recreational cannabis enshrined in their constitution via Amendment 3 and those who don’t has heated up to a near boiling point.
With the state’s GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis leading the anti-marijuana charge on the one side and several organizations like Smart & Safe Florida on the other, the manifestation of the hot debate has come down to nearly constant news coverage and paid TV ads.
Whether true, false or wildly exaggerated, the airwaves are full. And when talking about campaign coverage, we’re talking money, and lots of it.
Smart & Safe has pulled in $148.77 million in cash and $953,000 in in-kind contributions as of this past Saturday making it the best-funded cannabis legalization initiative in US history.
Thanks to Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (OTC:TCNNF), which threw …